Video: Michael Steele Did the ‘Butt Dance’ Says Roland Martin

*Political pundit Roland Martin was fit to, be tied yesterday on CNN’s John King show when discussing Michael Steele’s defense on Newt Gingrich saying that President Obama may hold a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview.

When King mentioned the comments to Steele on Wednesday, the RNC chair rejected the idea that Gingrich was “race-baiting or playing to the birther crowd” and said that because Obama’s dad is from Africa, he is “of Kenyan, African descent”

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The topic of Obama came up in Amy Goodman’s recent interview with Johan Galtung, founder of the field of peace and conflict studies.

AMY GOODMAN: What is your assessment of President Obama?
JOHAN GALTUNG: I have never believed in him. Never. …leaning over backwards to negotiate with the Republicans and taking on Republican points, whereupon the Republicans vote no. Now, maybe the Republicans will now change from being a “no” party to some couple of “maybe” or “yeses,” maybe. But in the meantime, he has lost the support of the people who are voting for him. If I had been working like mad in 2008 to get him elected, because of some beauties in his rhetoric, and had experienced what I have experienced now, I would not work for the midterm elections.

AMY GOODMAN: What do you think he has gone back on, in terms of his promises?
JOHAN GALTUNG: Practically speaking, everything. Guantánamo is still there. Rendition is still there. There is the saying that no torture should take place; I haven’t seen the mechanism to ensure that that’s the case. The withdrawal from Iraq, with 50,000 remaining. Stepping up, escalating the war in Afghanistan.
I think it’s very contrary to the kind of thing that he was exuding, including the nuclear point. He should have had the decency, when Norway made the mistake of giving him the Nobel Peace Prize, of saying, “I graciously, gratefully decline. I haven’t earned it yet. Let’s come back when possibly I have earned it.” He didn’t say that, and dispensed with the prize money in a disgraceful way.

AMY GOODMAN: How?
JOHAN GALTUNG: To all kinds of irrelevant organizations. He didn’t even give it to US peace organizations.

Oh my god, what a self-important superiority-complex-having prick! Erick Erickson, Editor-in-Chief RedState.com. I can deal with “last best trick of a losing Democrat is to accuse the Republicans of racism,” as it’s an opinion or at least a statement that is open to debate. But “The issue here has nothing to do with race, the issue has to do with nobody, Republican or Democrat, has figured out what this guy’s worldview is, and the Republicans are starting to set the narrative for 2012 already that this guy’s worldview is fundamentally anti-American…I think he has a view of America that views America as one of many nations and not the last best hope for mankind…I think his worldview is anathema to the American destiny as conservatives have viewed it.” Do you see the self-satisfaction on “this guy”‘s face?!?

But I still say Bill Maher gets a pass.

“How are they going to out-fire-breathe each other? I mean where this rhetoric has gone to at this point and it’s only 2010?! And we’re having Newt Gingrinch, as we were talking about before, calling him an anti-colonial Lao Tribesman. Lao Tribesman — that’s the new Kenyan, Larry, and Kenyan, of course, was code for [ninja]. But that’s where they are. They can’t say it out loud. But that’s where this whole campaign is gonna be. You asked about racism? It’s all about racism. They cannot fathom this idea that there is a black president. And that’s what they are going to fight about.” Bravo, Bill – keep it real.

And Steele is continuously steppin-and-fetchin for some shred of credibility in the populace and within the Republican party. Doesn’t want to criticize anyone that has any juice. Straight house ninja. Can’t say anything else.

Rallies are being held nationwide today in support of the alleged military whistleblower Bradley Manning. An Army intelligence analyst, Manning is being held on charges he leaked classified documents, including a video of a US military helicopter killing a group of innocent Iraqis, as well as thousands of Afghan war logs. The website WikiLeaks published both the video and the war records earlier this year. The Bradley Manning Support Network says it will hold rallies in nineteen cities today as part of a three-day series of events to urge the US government to drop all of Manning’s charges.

Daniel Ellsberg: “He is disloyal to the empire and to the emperor, as I have become. And without more Bradley Mannings and people like you who will support him with money in a concrete way and with your support by being here tonight—with more Bradley Mannings, there’s a chance that we will have the democratic constitutional republic we were meant to have, and may sometime be.”

White House officials declined Friday to reinstall a solar panel that President Carter had placed atop 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. three decades ago.

An environmental group led by author Bill McKibben carried the panel on a “Put Solar On It” road trip from Unity College in Unity, Maine, where the panel has been stored, to the White House. He promoted the trip on the “Late Show With David Letterman” last week and, in a Washington Post column, said reinstalling the panel would be a chance for President Obama “to make at least symbolic amends” for not getting a climate change bill passed.

McKibben hoped to hand-deliver the panel to Obama, but had no such luck. He met with mid-level officials who politely declined the gift, saying it had very little energy-saving potential and Obama was doing more to promote renewable energy than any prior president, according to TheNew York Times. The story says the word “stunt” may have come up.

Carter had placed 32 solar panels atop the White House in 1979, but they were removed during President Reagan’s administration, which also allowed Carter’s solar tax credits to expire in 1985.

Uhm! I see pandering to the Repubs is still a priority for this admin.

@Reds – your white hood is so last century. you really should update it with some rhinestones and glitter – maybe around the holes for the eyes? and what about tying a pink scarf around your redneck? you’ll be the life of your meth party in your trailer park. 😉

Okaaaay. So let me get this right. I’m white because I’m calling out Obama for pandering to Republicans.
Hello! Did I get that right?

Or is it that you are such a dunce that you couldn’t see that’s what the articles were about?

No? Oh, you were able to see that’s what they were alluding to, and I therefore assume that you then had objections with them anyway. So then what does that make you, assuming that you are black?

Doesn’t that make you a House Negroe, or even an Uncle Tom?
No?! Why not?

Republicans are conservatives, code words for white racists. So doesn’t the fact that you support their agenda, as evidenced by your angst against me for calling out Obama for doing the same, does that not then make you a panderer to their philosophy? And you are black? Aren’t you? Then is not that the definition of an uncle Tom/House Negroe. Were you also opposed to folks like me calling out Obama for having a beer summit with that cracka cop?

Look fool, I’m a black progressive Democrat, and I don’t have to apologize to you or anyone on this board for my opposition to Obama’s non-progressive pandering to the right. I voted straight Democrat, but I have opposed that attitude from day one, and will continue to do so, a black man being the president, notwithstanding.

Is it low self esteem why some black people feel compelled to follow in lock step with Obama, even when it is evident that his policies are hurting the Party and even black people?

Now I must say I give the president some credit for his recent campaign stance. Calling out the Republicans for what they are, alluding to the fact that they have something personal against him, which guides their agenda to oppose everything he does. But take the solar panel rejection, it’s like one step forward, two steps backwards. This harkens back to the Shirley Sherrod debacle, where they were so hell bent on not ticking off Beck and Fox. This was supposed to be, if not anything else, a symbolic gesture of the administration’s support for green energy. But they were soooo scared to be associated with the “radical” Jimmy Carter. I mean, we talking about Jimmy Carter, one of the most progressive presidents, responsible for so many advancements in civil rights, compared to the racist asshole called Ronald Reagan. And who did the administration side with, out of fear of being criticized by the likes of Glenn Beck and the Fox network?

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